Here's why this is disgusting: Reviewing their Second Avenue Subway promises, one thinks of the solemn and almost-always-broken treaties made with Native Ameri

Here's why this is disgusting: Reviewing their Second Avenue Subway promises, one thinks of the solemn and almost-always-broken treaties made with Native Americans, or what historian Helen Hunt called "The Shame of a Nation." The Second Avenue Subway could be called "The Shame of a City" — and of its political class across generations. Compare the genocide of a continent of indigenous Americans to an overcrowded commute? Really?